Gray whales in the news (WordPress)

February 28, 2014

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FILE--A boy reaches out to touch the carcass as Makah Indian whalers strip a gray whale of its flesh and villagers and media members gather following the tribe's first successful whale hunt in over 70 years, May 17, 1999, in Neah Bay, Wash. A month after gray whales began their 5,000-mile migration from Mexico to the Chukchi Sea off Alaska, three Makah families are preparing to set out for a hunt. It will be their first off the northwest coast of Washington since the tribe revived the ancient traditionin 1999. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

AP

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FILE--A boy reaches out to touch the carcass as Makah Indian whalers strip a gray whale of its flesh and villagers and media members gather following the tribe's first successful whale hunt in over 70 years, May 17, 1999, in Neah Bay, Wash. A month after gray whales began their 5,000-mile migration from Mexico to the Chukchi Sea off Alaska, three Makah families are preparing to set out for a hunt. It will be their first off the northwest coast of Washington since the tribe revived the ancient traditionin 1999. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)